Thursday, June 21, 2018

Non-Plastic Alternatives to Pet Waste Bags

Eliminating plastics from our lives is a very big challenge. Plastic is everywhere and we use it in most everything we do, including when picking up after our pets.

The most common material used by pet owners to clean up after their pets is reused plastic packaging, grocery or bread bags, newspaper sleeves, and other
similar bags - and those are all plastic!

One could choose more "eco-friendly" bags that are compostable or
biodegradable to use instead but, even though their production may be
better (which is a great plus!), they will still be going to the landfill
the same way all the other trash goes and, since landfills are designed NOT to have much decomposition happen to
anything that is buried in
there, the bags
will not disappear; they will be spending their time buried in the
landfill together with all the other trash.

Choosing one of these products over regular plastic depends on your preference, routine,
and how much money you would like to spend on such solution. I wonder how this job was done before plastic bags came along. That would be an interesting research to
be done for a future article.

*IMPORTANT information
obtained from Brevard County Utility Services Department and South
Central Treatment Plant
(http://www.brevardfl.gov/UtilityServices/ContactInfo): In Brevard Conty, you can flush pet waste but flushable bags are not 100% guaranteed to work - it depends on the composition of the bags and their requirements for biodegrading. So FLUSH THE WASTE but NOT THE BAG.

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